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Ivanchuk strikes back!

The all-Russian clash

In an incredible game Vassily Ivanchuk managed to run his king to the other wing while launching a powerful counter-attack in a wild game against Emil Sutovsky. The Ukrainian's victory keeps him in the competition. Judit Polgar didn't have too many problems holding against Sergey Karjakin and so she eliminated the top seed. Nine matches from sixteen will go to the tie-breaks tomorrow.

Alexander Grischuk is through, although it's hard to understand why opponent Alexander Morozevich didn't try for longer. Two of the Azeris, Vugar Gashimov and Teimour Radjabov, cashed in the advantage of the white pieces, and are in the fourth round.

On the other hand, Shakhriyar Mamedyarov was held by the lowest-rated player remaining, Yaroslav Zherebukh.

Dmitry Jakovenko won both games against Baadur Jobava.

The match involving Alexander Moiseenko and David Navara had the particularity of having the longest game of both yesterday and today!

The only non-European qualifier so far is Bu Xianghi, after he beat Abhijeet Gupta.

One of the games of the tournament so far featured the wily Emil Sutovsky against the experienced Vassily Ivanchuk.

Vassily Ivanchuk

It looked good for Emil, but Ivanchuk saw further!

Emil Sutovsky

Third and fourth seeds Ruslan Ponomariov and Shakhriyar Mamedyarov are into the play-offs.

Ruslan Ponomariov

Evgeny Tomashevsky went down to Vugar Gashimov with the black pieces.

Evgeny Tomashevsky

Here are the full results of the third round, second legs. The names in bold are the qualifiers:

Seed

White

Country

Elo

Result

Seed

Black

Country

Elo

01

Sergey Karjakin (0)

RUS

2788

½-½

33

Judit Polgar (1)

HUN

2699

81

Igor Lysyj (0)

RUS

2629

1-0

16

Leinier Dominguez Perez (1)

CUB

2719

25

Ian Nepomniachtchi (0)

RUS

2711

1-0

08

Gata Kamsky (1)

USA

2741

09

Peter Svidler (0.5)

RUS

2739

½-½

24

Fabiano Caruana (0.5)

ITA

2711

29

Zahar Efimenko (0.5)

UKR

2706

½-½

04

Ruslan Ponomariov (0.5)

UKR

2764

52

Lazaro Bruzon Batista (0.5)

CUB

2673

½-½

20

Le Quang Liem (0.5)

VIE

2715

05

Vugar Gashimov (0.5)

AZE

2760

1-0

28

Evgeny Tomashevsky (0.5)

RUS

2707

44

Peter Heine Nielsen (0.5)

DEN

2681

½-½

76

Mircea Parligras (0.5)

ROU

2636

31

Emil Sutovsky (1)

ISR

2700

0-1

02

Vassily Ivanchuk (0)

UKR

2766

50

Bu Xiangzhi (0.5)

CHN

2672

1-0

82

Abhijeet Gupta (0.5)

IND

2627

07

Teimour Radjabov (0.5)

AZE

2744

1-0

26

Etienne Bacrot (0.5)

FRA

2710

23

Baadur Jobava (0)

GEO

2713

0-1

10

Dmitry Jakovenko (1)

GEO

2736

03

Shakhriyar Mamedyarov (0.5)

AZE

2746

½-½

94

Yaroslav Zherebukh (0.5)

UKR

2590

19

Alexander Moiseenko (0.5)

UKR

2715

½-½!

14

David Navara (0.5)

CZE

2722

38

Alexander Morozevich (0)

RUS

2694

½-½

06

Alexander Grischuk (1)

RUS

2746

11

Nikita Vitiugov (0.5)

RUS

2733

½-½

43

Vladimir Potkin (0.5)

RUS

2682

Of the six qualifiers so far, four of them (all except Grischuk and Bu) have avoided the tie-breaks in each of the three rounds.